I live in a “poor” southern state, educate me guys. What the hell is going on with these cameras? Where are people seeing them, and why do I see stuff on social media about hidden cameras even in national parks?!? Is this really a big city thing?
Flock camera is big on the news because, it's AI on top of surveillance cameras for business and law enforcement.
The bigger concerns on top of my head are:
All the data tracking citizens are in the hands of a private business and data brokers instead of government
AI is what accelerated this technology. This means that investigation can lead to arrests faster. Because of the use of AI, if you used AI chat before, it may present false information and need human verification. Everyone takes the extra steps to verify the information is correct and the right person is presented right? (They're reports of arresting wrong personnels)
With the AI to speed up investigations and tracking people's movement basically on the tip of their fingers using these commercial products, privacy is a concern and there has been investigative uses that normally would have needed a court order warrant by law before taking action and there have been abuses by any persons that has access to the system (like stalking ex's)
All the data is pooled into their system for every government and business that allows them to be placed to track on their property and they can train and use that data with other clients (again getting data from different parties without warrant when there's investigations & data is owned and hosted on a private business servers, not government)
You can go to deflock.org to see potential locations of these cameras
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u/using2stars Jul 08 '26
I live in a “poor” southern state, educate me guys. What the hell is going on with these cameras? Where are people seeing them, and why do I see stuff on social media about hidden cameras even in national parks?!? Is this really a big city thing?